On Dec 18, 1:35 am, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
nomine.org> wrote:
> -On [20071217 23:20], fmi.jcrissman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> >I agree with your preference to place Save/Apply/OK before Cancel;
> >however, on Linux, UNIX and MacOS, this button order is naturally
> >reversed from Windows and similar GUIs. Trac, WebAdmin and the Web
> >browser have no control in this context unless the buttons are
> >strictly contained within a Web form.
>
> How do you mean have no control? For all I know the order in which place the
> buttons in your HTML define the order in which they get shown, no?
>
> Looking at, say, the component modification screen within Opera 9.5 on Windows
> XP the order is: Cancel/Save. This is indeed different from the expected
> order. One could argue that it breaks the principle of least astonishment for
> web forms given the majority is used to forms where save/ok and such are left
> and cancel is right.
The buttons are a part of the form, but I don't know what's meant by
"strictly contained within". And like my parent post, I'm confused by
the assertion that we can't control the order. The change I'm
suggesting would be a small patch on the following files in trunk/trac/
admin/templates: admin_components.html, admin_enums.html,
admin_milestones.html, and admin_versions.html. For each, the
relevant snippet of the patch would look like so:
<div class="buttons">
+ <input type="submit" name="save" value="Save" />
<input type="submit" name="cancel" value="Cancel" />
- <input type="submit" name="save" value="Save" />
</div>
So yeah, not a big change. Just checking for some reasoning behind
the current behavior. Seeing none, I'll go ahead and submit a ticket.
Gabriel
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